Scottish witchcraft: select bibliography
Databases
- Julian Goodare et al, The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft (University of Edinburgh, 2003)
- Emma Carrol et al, interactive witchcraft map (University of Edinburgh, 2019)
Podcasts
- ‘Witch Hunt’, BBC Radio Scotland, 7 episodes (Oct.-Dec. 2019)
- Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, ‘Witches of Scotland podcast’ (ongoing)
Bibliographies
- Julian Goodare et al, ‘Further Reading’, in The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft (University of Edinburgh, 2003)
- Julian Goodare, ‘Bibliography of Scottish Witchcraft’, in Julian Goodare (ed.), Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters (Basingstoke, 2013), 234-45
Primary sources
- Joseph Anderson (ed.), ‘The Confessions of the Forfar witches (1661)’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 22 (1887-8), 241-62
- R. Burns Begg (ed.), ‘Notice of Trials for Witchcraft at Crook of Devon, Kinross-shire, in 1662’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 22 (1887-8), 211-41
- G. F. Black (ed.), ‘Confessions of Alloa Witches’, Scottish Antiquary 9 (1895), 49-52
- G. F. Black and Northcote W. Thomas (eds), Examples of Printed Folklore Concerning the Orkney & Shetland Islands (London, 1903), 55-139
- G. F. Black (ed.), Some Unpublished Scottish Witchcraft Trials (New York, 1941)
- John Christie (ed.), Witchcraft in Kenmore, 1730–57: Extracts from the Kirk Session Records of the Parish (Aberfeldy, 1893)
- Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, A True Narrative of the Sufferings and Relief of a Young Girle (Edinburgh, 1698)
- James Hutchisone, ‘A Sermon on Witchcraft in 1697’, ed. George Neilson, Scottish Historical Review 7 (1910), 390-9
- James VI, Daemonologie (Edinburgh, 1597)
- Brian P. Levack (ed.), The Witchcraft Sourcebook, 2nd edn (London, 2015)
- J. R. N. Macphail (ed.), ‘Witchcraft in Kenmore, 1730–57: Extracts from the Kirk Session Records of the Parish’, in Highland Papers, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1920), 2-38
- Hugh McLachlan (ed.), The Kirk, Satan and Salem: A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire (Glasgow, 2006)
- M. A. Murray (ed.), ‘Two Trials for Witchcraft’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 56 (1921-2), 46-60
- Newes from Scotland (London, 1591)
- A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of Above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew (London, 1697)
- David M. Robertson (ed.), Goodnight My Servants All: The Sourcebook of East Lothian Witchcraft (Glasgow, 2007)
- George Sinclair, Satans Invisible World Discovered (Edinburgh, 1685)
- John Stuart (ed.), ‘Trials for Witchcraft, 1596-1598’, Miscellany of the Spalding Club i (1841), 82-193
- Michael B. Wasser and Louise A. Yeoman (eds), ‘The Trial of Geillis Johnstone for Witchcraft, 1614’, Scottish History Society Miscellany xiii (2004), 83-145
- David Webster (ed.), Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight (Edinburgh, 1820)
- Louise A. Yeoman (ed.), ‘Witchcraft Commissions from the Register of Commissions of the Privy Council of Scotland, 1630-1642’, Scottish History Society Miscellany xiii (2004), 223-65
Secondary sources
- Julian Goodare, ‘Women and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland, Social History 23:3 (1998), 288-308
- Julian Goodare, ‘The Framework for Scottish Witch-Hunting in the 1590s’, The Scottish Historical Review 81:212 (2002), 240-50
- Julian Goodare (ed.), The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context (Manchester, 2002)
- Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, and Joyce Miller (eds), Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland (Basingstoke, 2008)
- Julian Goodare, ‘Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland’, in Alison Rowlands (ed.), Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe (London, 2009)
- Julian Goodare (ed.), Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters (Basingstoke, 2013)
- Julian Goodare, ‘Witchcraft in Scotland’, in Brian P. Levack (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America (Oxford, 2013)
- Julian Goodare and Martha McGill (eds), The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (Manchester, 2020)
- Lizanne Henderson (ed.), Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture (Edinburgh, 2009)
- Lizanne Henderson, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740 (Basingstoke, 2016)
- Christina Larner, Enemies of God: the Witch-Hunt in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1981)
- Brian P. Levack, Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion (Abingdon, 2008)
- S.W. MacDonald, ‘The Devil’s Mark and the Witch-Prickers of Scotland’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 90 (1997), 507-11
- Stuart Macdonald, The Witches of Fife: Witch-Hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710 (Edinburgh, 2002)
- Lauren Martin, ‘Witchcraft and Family: What Can Witchcraft Documents Tell Us About Early Modern Scottish Family Life?’ Scottish Tradition 27 (2002), 7-22
- Lawrence Normand and Gareth Roberts (eds), Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James’s Demonology and the North Berwick Witches (Exeter, 2000)
- Liv Helene Willumsen, Witches of the North: Scotland and Finnmark (Leiden, 2013)
- Jenny Wormald, ‘The Witches, the Devil and the King’, in Terry Brotherstone and David Ditchburn (eds), Freedom and Authority: Scotland, c.1050-c.1650 (Edinburgh, 2000)
- Louise A. Yeoman, ‘The Devil as Doctor: Witchcraft, Wodrow, and the Wider World’, Scottish Archives 1 (1995), 93-105
